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Dear Friends John here again after a long delay, for which I must present my excuses… I need to write about an experience I had last Saturday night. My wife, Ina and I had the pleasure to be invited by a dear friend Tereza Maxova and her husband to the » LIFE BALL », which is an annual event held in Vienna, Austria. It was the...

To our cousins in the US, I really need to bring your attention to the bureaucratic theater that your ‘foreign‘ cousins are subject to every time we wish to bring our music/art to the US. To begin the arduous process of obtaining the necessary ‘work’ visa, we must first go on line with the closest US Consulate. The computer that...

We’re back home and going from day to day… Last night (Saturday) I dreamed of Miles again. I’ve dreamed of him quite a number of times since his departure, and last night was special. In my dream I arrived at the entrance of a kind of cafe – bistro, where I saw musicians I knew sitting at a table outside. I don’t recall who...

I’ve decided, for better or for worse, to write what might be termed a ‘blog’ for the website. The decision to do this comes as a result of my own belief that the more personal I am with the people who identify with me in some way, the more I identify with them, and the more universal we become. It’s the same in music. Listening to...